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Dealing with A l a n E r s k i n e
John Maxson wrote:
Nomen Nescio wrote in message .. . Alan is not just content to harass his victims in the newsgroups, he usually also stalks them via email. Sure, he did that to me. I complained to his ISP, but it did absolutely no good. He's done his part to ruin my s.s.s. reputation, as have so many others; but I've found no recourse at the ISPs of the most abusive ones, like Erskine and Mosley for example. Yes, it's very hard to get rid of psychos and netkooks / netkops like Erskine because they feel they have some special God-given mandate to police the newsgroups and decide who can and can't participate. It's a Messiah Complex. And as annoying and irritating as they are in the newsgroups, these kooks and cowards usually reserve their worst venom for email, where the other folks in the newsgroups can't see what they're up to. So it is best to use a three-fold strategy with them: 1 - Complain to their ISP, frequently if necessary, sending in EVERY piece of harassment and abuse you receive from them. Although as you say, sometimes they don't take action, eventually if they get enough complaints they may decide to look into it. 2. Complain to legal authorities. In Erskine's case, since he is in Australia, complaints should be filed with the Australian Federal Police. Their website is http://www.afp.gov.au/ . 3. Expose, shame, and ridicule him. This is perhaps the tactic that works best in the short to medium term, although you should pursue all the other ones at the same time too. Post to the group each and every abusive, harassing email you receive from him. And get the word out on just what kind of psycho he is. That's why I've written the piece below and post it to alert others. Feel free to use it yourself and distribute it and post it anywhere you wish, and pass it on to others: About A l a n E r s k i n e a l a n e r s k i n e @ o p t u s n e t . c o m . a u A l a n E r s k i n e is a well known Australian netkook, psychopath, and coward who lives in Melbourne. He usually stalks and harasses the posters of the sci.space groups, although he is known to make excursions into a wide range of other groups for the purpose of trolling, stalking, and harassing the participants there. He is currently under investigation by the authorities in Australia. If you fall victim to his frequent attacks and stalking / harassment campaigns, like so many in the groups he frequents have, notify . This psycho is dangerous Most sane participants have been forced to killfile him for his frequent violent outbursts at posters and his unrelenting attacks. Some are taking legal action against him. Here are just a few of his victims. He has been stalking and harassing Scott and Betty Grissom relentlessly. Scott Grissom is the son of Gus Grissom, the second American in space, who died in an Apollo 1 training exercise fire, and Betty Grissom, 75, is his widow. Alan has also been waging long-time stalking and harassment campaigns against other well-known members of the space community, including Richard Katz of NASA, John Maxson, and his sons Paul and Daniel Maxson. He has even gone so far as to threaten to kill the entire Maxson family. He has been known to stalk his victims anonymously and via sock puppets, showing what a coward he is. Furthermore, he likes to challenge people to fights, telling them to come to Melbourne and look him up in the phone book, while having admitted elsewhere that he is not listed in the phone book. Coward! Alan is an enemy of freedom of speech and hates remailers, which serve a useful and necessary purpose. He has resorted to impersonating others and even himself through remailers in an effort to discredit remailers and make it look like others were attacking him through them. He regularly bombards remailer operators with hysterical complaints and threats and floods their mailboxes. Alan is currently on one of his psychotic crusades, this time to get people to killfile posts from remailers in order to prevent word of his misdeeds from getting out. Alan is a Nazi, he wants to be able to say whatever he wants about others but doesn't want anyone to mention him. He wants to express himself freely but wants to shut others up and, not only that, wants others to do as he says, read only the messages he approves of, etc. He wants to police, rule, and control newsgroups and people like the perfect little jackbooted Nazi he is. Alan is not just content to harass his victims in the newsgroups, he usually also stalks them via email. If you find yourself on the receiving end of Alan's famous psychotic emails, contact immediately, as well as the law enforcement agencies in Melbourne, Australia. This psycho is very violent. Do not attempt to reason with him yourself, many others have tried and he does not respond to reason. Let the authorities deal with him. |
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